It is easy to create apps that are beautiful, as well as easy to use, when you leverage PowerApps formulas alongside media components which can act as custom controls. In this blog, we’ll learn how to create a single page app that requires no typing at all to submit humidity and temperature data to a SharePoint list. This part of the app build will take around 20 minutes to complete.

The PowerApps Community was created as a place for PowerApps users to learn and interact together, and so today we’re happy to announce the official launch of our latest feature: the PowerApps Community Blog. The blog is your platform to share knowledge with peers, industry experts, and us here at Microsoft. Everyone is welcome to contribute! To get started, simply message me, @Jessica, with a rough title for your post and a couple of sentences to describe your topic.

You are cordially invited to a special PowerApps design and creativity challenge! Create your own single screen app, and have fun using creative thinking to make it interesting and easy to use. Two participants will be gifted a special “PowerApps Design Master” t-shirt, as well as some fun PowerApps swag. Additionally, one person will be invited to join me in a community virtual meet-up. The challenge starts today and ends on February 15, 2017!

The holidays have come to a close, which means we’re back with more webinars! Over the next two weeks we have fantastic PowerApps and Flow webinars for your viewing pleasure. Microsoft Flow administration, SharePoint integration, and best practices by Merwan Hade PowerApps custom APIs, gateways, and data sources by Archana Nair How to build a production-ready event application in less than a week with PowerApps